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by jpmattia 1y ago
The wordpress post is old, and so the author didn't have the chance to include my favorite method: Every Author as First Author: (pdf) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.01393
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by jpmattia 2y ago
> So far, I've not been able to devise any way to improve such recall The only way I've found is not intuitive: Extreme health consciousness, both in diet and exercise. I pretty much had to give up alcohol as well, just a cou
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by jpmattia 2y ago
James Carville in the 90s: “I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or as a .400 baseball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody
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by jpmattia 2y ago
While the post is amusing, somebody needs to say it: Band structure and the theory of solids is some of the most beautiful physics out there. The fact that it has completely altered society as we know it is merely secondary. :)
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by jpmattia 2y ago
> up to the point of General Relativity. Putting in a plug for MIT OCW 8.962 [1]. I also had this itch, and was able to find time during the pandemic to work through the course (at about 1/2 speed). But true to what others are say
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by jpmattia 2y ago
I can't be the only person curious about his Fortunescope: https://www.etsy.com/listing/719052863/antique-1935-fortunes...
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by jpmattia 2y ago
It sounds like there should be warnings on the raw elements of protein powders, not just the powders, which makes me think (adjusts tinfoil hat to filter proper wavelengths) that the issue raised by the original article is more about FUD an
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by jpmattia 2y ago
Same question as in the other comment: Are warnings issued about the protein powders but not the original rice the powder is made from?
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by jpmattia 2y ago
I like communicating with friends, old and new. It's not hard to eliminate the cruft by using chrome extensions and filtering only by friends' posts, ie https://www.facebook.com/?filter=friends So again, it strike
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by jpmattia 2y ago
So is the rice itself also high in arsenic/cadmium? ie, are people issuing warnings about the protein powders but not the original material the powder is made from?
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by jpmattia 2y ago
The right-turns on FB and Twitter make for big openings in the space. It strikes me as quite an opportunity to eat FB's lunch, just as BlueSky has been eating Twitter's lunch.
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by jpmattia 2y ago
It raises the question: Where are things like arsenic and cadmium coming from? Is it in the brown rice to begin with? If so, why?
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by jpmattia 2y ago
And after a while, the system get bad enough that fsck starts failing regularly. Really poor design.
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by jpmattia 2y ago
One source is the news stations here in LA, eg https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/california-wildfires/pali...
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by jpmattia 2y ago
> It was not exactly a fun place to work. I couldn't disagree more, but perhaps the time I was there (late 90s) was different.
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by jpmattia 2y ago
> and the other co-inventor of the integrated circuit was Fairchild Semiconductor, which as far as I can tell didn’t operate anything like a basic research lab. Kind of a strange statement. Fairchild took the "traitorous eight&quo
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by jpmattia 2y ago
> And plenty of medical experts get the Monty Hall problem wrong. Then they're not experts on prob and stats in medicine, and you shouldn't choose them to guide policy making when prob and stats in medicine are relevant. The
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by jpmattia 2y ago
> That is a political decision, and it is perfectly reasonable to dispute it. "Political decision" as a euphemism for allowing non-experts to decide how to minimize deaths? The same non-experts who couldn't even get the
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by jpmattia 2y ago
> Challenging scientific conclusions should be encouraged not cancelled. Vaccines are on the docket for cancellation, which to be fair, will last only as long as a swath of the population sees their kids incapacitated by some completel
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by jpmattia 2y ago
Thanks for speaking out, Paul.
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by jpmattia 2y ago
Maybe just me, but I'd like a column (and checkbox on the left) about packaging. I don't know why protein powders require plastic cannisters, and it would seem to me that they are well-suited to something more environmentally frie
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by jpmattia 2y ago
The subheading of the article is "Using AI to fight insurance claim denials", and her site is here: https://fighthealthinsurance.com/
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Using AI to fight insurance claim denials(sfstandard.com)
203 points by jpmattia 2y ago|176 comments
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by jpmattia 2y ago
I think the acknowledgements in your second link are interesting: > I thank Stephen Wolfram for an enjoyable conversation about this review;
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by jpmattia 2y ago
I did see that, and maybe I should expand my comment. From the perspective of someone doing long-term research: Undermind is a startup and is subject to the vagaries of VC funding. Currently, AI is in fashion among VCs, but my guess is that
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by jpmattia 2y ago
I was looking for a way to save the result page locally (ie offline). Maybe I need more coffee, but it did not look possible. So I'd add the ability to save the result (or at least make the button prominent). But the fact I wanted to
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by jpmattia 2y ago
> "manually dig through papers on Google Scholar for hours." The old dinosaurs on HN are snickering about the word "manual" here, having blown days pawing through the library stacks.
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by jpmattia 2y ago
Tastes around here definitely vary. I prefer curvy monitors with big CPUs.
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by jpmattia 2y ago
Tangentially related: My wife's grandparents lived on a farm that has been a working family farm for over 200 years. The ram pump was quite impressive in its day (pre-electricity); It meant not having to haul water from the spring or c
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by jpmattia 2y ago
> As long as I didn’t remove the phone from my Apple account or the Find My app, the phone was essentially bricked to anyone without the passcode and my iCloud password — unusable by the thieves, or the fences who I assume bought it fro

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